This is a new site which addresses a new (and hopefully
interesting!) theme in US history, one at a time in 5 installments plus a quiz which you can use to test your knowledge
at any time.
Each day's information is presented on one relatively brief page,
avoiding information overload by favoring interesting and
little-known information while providing links to related information of
special interest (the best we could find).
To learn how to be informed via
RSS whenever there is a new article, please
click here.
Current Series:
Choosing a President
With the US presidential selection process in full swing (for better or
worse), we review the origins of our sometimes confusing method of selecting
a president. The starting point is the US Constitution and its
"electoral" system. Other topics include who was allowed to vote
for President in the first election (it was up to each state and varied
widely) and changes later made to
include blacks and women. Finally, we will take a look at how eager
the US citizenry is to vote and how this has changed over the years.
We hope you gain useful insight from this series,
Choosing a President.
Included are brief articles about the words
Gerrymandering and
Suffrage.
For the previous series of articles, follow this link to
Honoring the Dead of War, and you can
always use the "Daily US History Topics" found at the top right of every
page on this site.
